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Wednesday 9 January 2008, 7.00pm
Herschel's Chrystotype - Rediscovery of Photography's Golden Legend
Dr Mike Ware, Lecturer, Photographer, Fellow of the Royal Societies of Chemistry and Photography
Since prehistory, gold has embellished many of man’s finest works; but the art of photographic printing has been dominated by silver and briefly, platinum. In 1842 Sir John Herschel invented his Chrystotype , a gold printing process. Modern chemistry has now enabled artist– photographers to hand-make beautiful prints in nanoparticle gold; the same superb pigment known to ceramicists and alchemists since the Renaissance as Purple of Cassius.
MANDEC Dental School, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester
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Monday 14 January 2008, 7.00pm
Churchill, Chartwell and Domestic Strife
Dr Stefan Buczacki, Honorary Professor of Plant Pathology, Liverpool John Moores University
Author and broadcaster Stephan Buczacki has spent three years researching one of the last untold aspects of Winston Churchill’s life - how he and Clementine found, rebuilt and created their house and garden at Chartwell. In doing so he has uncovered a chronicle of non too wise house buying and selling, domestic angst, legal disputes and tangles that seemed to follow Churchill wherever he went.
MANDEC Dental School, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester
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Monday 21 January 2008, 7.00pm
Can the Learning Species Fit into our Schools
John Abbott, President of the 21 st Century Learning Initiative and Director of the Education 2000 Trust
Schooling in the 21st century still bears the scars of its 19th century origins. John Abbott will discuss the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a self-organising activity.
MANDEC Dental School, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester
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Tuesday 29 January 2008, 7.00pm
Yea Why Try Her Raw Wet Hat
Professor Robin Wilson, Gresham Professor, University of Oxford
It is often said that mathematics and music go together, but what does this mean? This illustrated lecture featuring music ranging from Tallis and Bach to Bartok and Hindemith, answers such questions as: Why are pianos always out of tune? Can music have geometry? and What is the meaning of the title of this talk?
Chethams School of Music, Long Millgate, Manchester
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